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"Mayor, two education proposals. Bill de Blasio wants to impose a tax to help …"

"On anything and everything," said Bloomberg, cutting him off. "He wants to drive everybody out of the city, but that's OK. He's a good guy."

What about Liu's guidance counselor proposal?

"You can never have enough guidance counselors, school crossing guards, physics teachers, whatever," said the mayor. "Every part of the city, we'd like to have more, but you have to have some kind of balance in the Department of Education consistent with how much money we have and our allocations of monies have to make those decisions. It's nice that they're focusing on it, but I think, in this case, the Department of Education is who I'll rely on to decide what we need."